Mary

“Mary” is the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written in 1926 in Berlin. The work tells the story of Ganin, a Russian émigré living in a Berlin boarding house, who unexpectedly discovers that his first love, Mary, is arriving to join her husband, who also resides in the same boarding house. The novel explores themes of memory, nostalgia, love, and exile, revealing the delicate boundary between past and present, reality and recollection.